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UK
/dɪlˈɪbəɹətˌɪv/
]
[ US /dɪˈɫɪbɝˌeɪtɪv, dɪˈɫɪbɹətɪv/ ]
[ US /dɪˈɫɪbɝˌeɪtɪv, dɪˈɫɪbɹətɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination
a deliberative body
How To Use deliberative In A Sentence
- When we respond emotionally to situations, for example, we usually do so without extensive deliberative thought or analysis.
- They take a very sober, thoughtful, deliberative look at a situation.
- It's easy to forget that the Senate is considered by some to be a deliberative body.
- There's something wistfully pinheaded about deliberative democracy - it sounds a lot like law school.
- But at no point does anyone engage in any real deliberative legal analysis about the actual legality of the orders.
- a deliberative body
- Consciousness, we may argue, comes into being when information is re-presented to a monitoring faculty under deliberative attention.
- At the same time, this is not a top-down, bureaucratic management by fiat: authority here is vested not in any single individual, but rather in the deliberative group itself.
- The deliberative orator is concerned with the future: it is about things to be done hereafter that he advises, for or against.
- And therefore, it wasn't considered and wasn't part of the deliberative process.